Mar 23
“The world is like a mask dancing. If you want to see it well you do not stand in place.” –Chinua Achebe “Why would someone want to jump in after a mermaid?” The museum guide was tall and sported a top hat and black dinner coat, complete with tails and bow-tie. After a few [...]
Mar 12
“It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could’st make the time to do so too; I’ll wind thee up no more.” –Ben Jonson After a combined total of twelve or so months living in London, it’s rather shocking I [...]
Mar 5
“Look at a tree, a flower, a plant. Let your awareness rest upon it. How still they are, how deeply rooted in Being. Allow nature to teach you stillness.” –Eckhart Tolle, Stillness Speaks When you start thinking in iambic pentameter, it’s a sign you need to go outside and get some air. This week we [...]
Feb 13
“Get a bicycle. You will not regret it if you live.” –Mark Twain When driving around the North Island of New Zealand last year, I spent a night on the Coromandel Peninsula in a hostel not far from the famous Hot Water Beach. That night I got to know three Germans (well, two Germans and one [...]
“It is at sunset that the Pyramids must be seen.” –Gustave Flaubert, Flaubert in Egypt There’s something particularly unsettling about watching a political crisis unfold in a place you’ve travelled in and loved. Just two weeks after I left Fiji in April of 2009, a coup took place as the president dismissed all judges and [...]
Feb 4
“God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.” –Jacques Deval I hadn’t been looking for a market. Indeed, on such a lazy Sunday morning in Porto, Portugal, I hadn’t been looking for anything much at all–but isn’t that when the great finds always happen? From the bus on my [...]
Feb 1
“Derive happiness in oneself from a good day’s work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.” –Henri Matisse It’s funny the things that remain with us after we leave a place. After a weekend in Porto, Portugal, I’m left with the usual sort of activities to look back on–the four-hour bike ride down the coast [...]
Jan 26
“Where then? Spain or Sardinia. Spain or Sardinia. Sardinia, which is like nowhere. Sardinia which has no history, no date, no race, no offering. Let it be Sardinia.” —D.H. Lawrence, Sea and Sardinia You know that person all your friends want you to meet? The one they’re just dying to introduce you to? Maybe it’s—“You’ll [...]
Jan 25
“As they went up between the houses that were dark and grisly under the blank, cold sky, it is amazing how these women of vermilion and rose-pink seemed to melt into an almost impossible blare of colour. What a risky blend of colours!” –D.H. Lawrence, Sea and Sardinia Some places have a way of impressing [...]
Jan 19
“My favorite thing is to go where I’ve never been.” –Diane Arbus Little Sweden USA. It’s an unusual title to hear no matter where you happen to be in the States, but perhaps even more so in a place like Kansas. But such is the claim to fame held by Lindsborg, a little town in [...]
Hello! My name is Candace and I'm a traveling writer, photographer, and sketch artist. Four years ago, I fell in love...but with the world, not "the one." This journey has taken me from a pearl farm in the South Pacific to a rickshaw run across India. The Great Affair is all about seeking inspiration, opening yourself up to the world, and falling in love with the adventure it offers. I'm glad you're here!
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